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I have some good news for you. In fact, some great news. When I heard it, I laughed out loud (hooted, in fact), clapped my hands, closed my eyes, and felt a tingle all the way down to my toes, as if I had just swallowed a blast of whisky. Wait a minute, maybe it was a blast of whisky. No, that was later. Just then it was the good news.

But first some bad news: As of this writing, neither Al Gore nor Tom Daschle have been struck dumb. Worse, they are not only physically capable of speech, there are a hundred million Americans who get warm and giggly listening to them.

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"A DEGRADED SENSUALISM deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity." Winston Churchill said this of peoples living under "Mohammedanism."

One wonders what the last lion might have said about the two suspected terrorists discovered on a train in Texas on September 12. Arrested by the FBI, the Muslims were carrying box cutters, $5,500 in cash, and copies of fake passports--in the photos of which the suspects appeared in various disguises including beards and glasses and whatnot.